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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

ANN has a fantastic editorial staff, semi-consistently being let down by their ad team managing to stumble into these kind of "against the site's ethos" spon-con advertorials 1-2x a year. At some point, they ought to transfer one the editorial folks over to ads, just to vet & avoid these goofs.

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BEAT
@beatskelton.bsky.social

I GET ADS FOR THAT THING ALL THE FUCKING TIME AND AS NEAR AS I CAN TELL IT'S JUST A CHATGPT INSTANCE TOLD TO YES-AND WHATEVER YOU SAY INTO A BUNCH OF ISEKAI TROPES.

Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

yeah, it a real obvious goof on their ad team's part & that side has made similar goofs before, which is the rough part. for example, this link used to go for an advertorial for an anime propaganda film from the cult Happy Science, but they pulled it & I hope that happens here as well:

animenewsnetwork.com(Removed)The advertorial previously posted at this URL promoted objectionable content that is not consistent with the values of ANN's editorial team, management...
Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

Will that cost money upfront? Yeah, twice over in taking less suspect ads & having an ad-person who is less about hustling for deals & more about making sure it's not undercutting over a quarter century of goodwill, but losing respect costs way more money in the long term anyway, so it'll pay off.

Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

Uh, deleting the skeet doesn't delete the advertorial. These needs to turn into the Happy Science advertorial post haste: www.animenewsnetwork.com/advertorial/...

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Barry's Furry Corner
@mendinso.bsky.social

So, they deleted the initial thread, second thread got started, moderation made a hostile statement, first thread got restored and merged, but notable posts removed, then the thread got moved, and the ad post got locked down, and we still don't have any communication on the issue.

Barry's Furry Corner
@mendinso.bsky.social

I'm not going to lie, the fact they moved the thread, and locked down the ad post, reads in a way they don't want the comments under an advertisers post, and that's an INCREDIBLE back look to me. Beyond that, Temptest, one of the heads at the site, mentioned last year they don't have an issue with